|
The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #77 - Whither Yon Garden of Beer, Adolphus?
12.15.10
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives
for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities,
and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This week:
Whither Yon Garden of Beer, Adolphus?
They were offered a garden, yet up their noses turned. The man had been as
Midwestern as their name, but they never could quite accept him. Hadn't this
city been incorporated to expel our saloons? Maybe he still bore too much the
mark of his native Germany, of his 20 brothers and sisters that he left behind
but perhaps not quite. Or maybe it was simply that he was not a resident but
instead only wintered there, not really one of them at all. Adolphus had been
a salesman, first and foremost, but ultimately he couldn't sell himself. And,
though now long dead and buried across the ocean, they couldn't help sticking
it to him one more time. A garden is for "the public." Better as a land deal, they
patted themselves on the back. Said Lilly, Fine then.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
For the latest information about each week's ride, join our mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/the-passage-announcements
For more information about past rides, visit our website:
http://www.ThePassageRide.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Burp.
Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
|
|
|
-->
Ridazz Roulette!
Midnight Ridazz(tm), Ridazz(tm) and Skull(tm) Reproduction without written permission prohibited.